Gerd Briese

{{Short description|German actor (1897–1957)}}

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| name = Gerd Briese

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|12|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Thorn, West Prussia, German Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1957|8|13|1897|12|27|df=yes}}

| death_place = West Berlin, West Germany

| other_names = Gert Briese

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| occupation = Actor, theatre director

| yearsactive = 1924–1957

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Gerd Briese (25 December 1897 – 13 August 1957) was a German stage and film actor.

Briese's film career began in 1924, and he late worked as a stage actor and director. He was killed in a traffic accident in the Wilmersdorf district of West Berlin in 1957, aged 59.{{cite web | url=https://www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_film20b40/134_briese_gerd.htm | title=Gerd Briese }}

Selected filmography

Bibliography

  • Kester, Bernadette. Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933). Amsterdam University Press, 2003.

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